Sentences with phrase «immediate point of»

Kim is held in high regard by pupils and fellow colleagues and looked upon as an immediate point of reference for inspiration.

From your immediate point of view, the purpose of a research plan is to help get you hired.

It is to be recalled that the soundness of Whitehead's argument (or of Lewis's commentary on this point) is not the immediate point of interest in this investigation.

19) of the Posterior Analytics, where Aristotle describes how the mind ascends to the first principles on which all science is grounded, he points out that the immediate point of departure of the inductive movement is not mere sense perception, but «experience»: «So from perception there comes memory, as we call it, and from memory (when it occurs often in connection with the same thing), experience; for memories that are many in number form a single experience.

If they signalled they wouldn't do so, two immediate points of interest come to mind: 1) If Labour were the largest party, or even in a whole UK majority, but the Tories were the largest rump UK party, the Liberal Democrats could more easily claim a renewed coalition with the Conservatives was preferable to a centre - left alliance, since a government that would lose its majority within a year would be unable to govern effectively; 2) A Labour or Labour - led government following a «yes» vote would have an incentive to push back the date of independence as far as possible.

Not exact matches

He's excited about the challenges that arise from taking some of these tropes of beer marketing, twisting them, and collaborating with parties outside the immediate industry to give Brooklyn Brewery a point of difference.

You can take immediate action on all of these points today.

In a world increasingly dominated by streaming media on mobile devices, new DirecTV subscribers will be offered «immediate access to programming... at the point of sale,» AT&T said, adding that the deal will «offer customers the freedom to watch hit TV shows anytime virtually anywhere, using a TV, computer, tablet or smartphone.»

Many of our friends and neighbors of all socioeconomic classes have not been exposed enough to fundamental financial principles and to that end we invite you to share this guide with others in your immediate circle and wider communities who may benefit from a refresher on these basic finance points.

Because they provide quick funding and point - of - sale access for a variety of business needs, credit cards are a popular way for entrepreneurs to fund immediate business expenses.

If those factors were positive here, our concerns about immediate downside risks would be less pointed, regardless of current valuation extremes.

They make an immediate bit of money, but they have only borrowed the stocks, so they need to 1) replace the stock at some point in the future and 2) pay dividends out of their own pockets for the length of borrowing the stock.

I understand that startups normally need capital froman an IPO or need to issue more stocks in order to finance R&D (well, as just about all companies pursue immediate profits not at the cost of the future, the second option is becoming forgettable), but what's the point when the whole world is now run by a few corporate cartels?

Research from Vanguard shows that an «immediate» lump - sum amount in a portfolio that includes a 60/40 mix of stocks and bonds outperformed dollar - cost averaging by a margin of 2.4 percentage points on average during a 12 - month period.

To be sure, the immediate Monday night market reaction to the debate could reverse, and analysts were quick to point out that there are still two more presidential debates to come ahead of the November election.

«To illustrate the magnitude of the 75 - year actuarial deficit, consider that for the... Trust Funds to remain fully solvent throughout the 75 - year projection period... revenues would have to increase by an amount equivalent to an immediate and permanent payroll tax rate increase of 2.76 percentage points to 15.16 percent.»

I instance the latter point because, of course, our immediate occasion is the Systematic Theology's volume on creation, anthropology, providence, christology, and atonement.

It's to the point with some Christian posters here that any criticism of their actions and religious beliefs garners the immediate judgment that the person doing so is being hateful when, in reality, they are only fulfilling that very same Bible observation made by Jesus.

Even if we grant that a clone, reared in different circumstances than its immediate ancestor, might turn out to be quite a different person in some respects, the point of that person's existence would be grounded in our will and desire.

At this point the, immediate response of those on the path of rigorous discipleship is clear and direct.

True though this is, no analysis however acute of immediate causes and immediate reasons for the decline in the prestige of Christianity can be the starting - point of remedy and recovery, if these immediate causes are subordinate in nature, time, and importance to underlying causes the importance of which is minimised or even overlooked.

The one that has received most attention in our time is that stemming from Soren Kierkegaard and issuing in modern existentialism.18 I shall not develop this point beyond suggesting that here, too, concern with the ultimate import of the immediate situation associates ultimacy with immediacy in its concreteness.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

For knowledge we need justification (according to standard accounts), not just conviction — unless (contrary to the internal point of view of «immediate conviction») the justification is external.

Every present can be viewed in its innocence, but the point of view of innocence is important chiefly because it acknowledges the fact of immediate experience.

Looked at from the point of view of its immediate pattern of self - enjoyment, an actual entity can be regarded as self - creative.

Let me remind you that the immediate point has been pathologies in the conception of ministry arising from subtle distortion of the relations among the three elements in the dominant Reformation image of ministry: Bible, pulpit, and preacher.

The body is the immediate environment of the soul, the physical point of contact with the available material world.

Otherwise, what would be the point of the application of philosophic generalizations beyond the data of their immediate origins (PR 8)?

The citizens of all surrounding towns use them for hunting, protection, and recreation, they hold safety to the highest standard, even accidentally pointing it at someone while picking it up will result in immediate punishment from parents, and they are locked away after use.

What might serve to bring about this latter possibility is an interesting subject for investigation, but the point of immediate relevance is a different one.

Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 345 - 346 and 435 imply clearly that (b) is the alternative Whitehead had in mind, for in each passage he presents a situation where a given occasion, X, inherits from another occasion, Y, in its past, which in turn inherits from Z, which is in its past — the point of each passage is to say that X inherits doubly from Z, both immediately and as mediated by Y. Z is not in the immediate past of X, and yet X is exhibited as prehending Z directly.

The point for us in this context, however, is that the New Testament material as a whole enables us to see that the first Christians, or their immediate successors, did not rest content with affirming that Jesus, in himself, was risen; they went on to say that the activity of God in his self - expression, above all in that self - expression in Jesus, was an abiding reality in the creation.

The other point — as shown by the sociological report on the Watts riots of several years ago — is that severe discontent transcends sheer economics, jobs, and immediate opportunities to get ahead.

«After all it's only the purely immediate men — who so far as spirit is concerned are about at the same point as the child in the first period of earliest infancy when with a thoroughly endearing nonchalance it lets everything pass out — it's the purely immediate men who can't retain anything.

This points, not to some transhistorical future hope, but to the immediate future in the life of the concrete historical Jesus.

The point is not that we decide or act blindly, but that we find ourselves claimed by the reality disclosed in a certain set of happenings — perhaps because of its manifest relevance to issues which are of immediate concern to us — before we have begun to grasp all that it means or implies.

Concretely, he must never be satisfied to cease asking â $ ˜but why?â $ ™ until he has driven his understanding to the point where he has an immediate, human grasp of what a given position meant, such that every nuance in the data is accounted for and withal, given the total of presuppositions and circumstances, he could feel himself doing the sameâ $ (p. 290).

BTW, one of the first rules in interpretation is looking at the immediate context; and going from that point.

An affirmative answer to this question receives some confirmation from the fact that within the immediate context we find some other words and phrases which point to the influence of the Baal cult on the language of Hosea and his contemporaries.

It generally refers to taking a number of individual versus and quoting them out of context (either their immediate textual context or the broader biblical context) to make a point that could not be validly made otherwise.

To the fundamentalist, the Bible is the one point where the relativity of human existence is broken since the Bible provides immediate access to God.

That there is not only chaos, that in fact extremely complex patterns of order have emerged and sustained themselves over eons, points to the fact that the possibilities are not ordered only in terms of immediate relevance but ordered also so that there are established limits that ensure some correlation among the many decisions that jointly make up the settled world.

Such interventions may prevent immediate consequences such as loss of a job, but the long - range results are usually negative in that they deprive the alcoholic of his right to experience the pain which might bring him to the point of openness to help.

First, the religious point of view which provides so - called humanitarian goals for the statesman as a direct and immediate substitute for selfish national purposes «misconceives the nature of international relations.»

The immediate issue, for Whitehead, concerns a point of opposition to the Einsteinian formulation of GTR.

At every point short of this ideal, there will be some inevitable tension between immediate enjoyment, a proximate future, and the vaster reaches of the future beyond our vivid imagination.

Whitehead risks this double crisis in scientific study by presuming from this point on that our experience of reality issues concretely in a flow of «perceptions, sensations, and emotions,» and that we are induced only by the forms of order in our thought to fancy that we have an immediate experience of a «neat, trim, tidy, exact world» (OT 109, 110).

There he pointed out that if there is immediate prehension of noncontiguous actual occasions then God's functioning as ground of the past is rendered arbitrary and ad hoc.

The Incarnation is the source of man's understanding of this added transcendent dimension, for it points to a reality beyond the immediate grasp of the noosphere: the union of God with his creation.